Healing Arts

Sing for Hope's Healing Arts initiative produces thoughtfully curated arts experiences across a range of genres and formats, designed in alignment with rigorous safety protocols for patients, staff, and caregivers in healthcare settings and older adult centers. Each activation is tailored to reflect the unique interests, cultural context, and health needs of our partner sites, ensuring relevance, resonance, and impact. Sing for Hope is the music provider for New York City Health and Hospitals, the country's largest municipal healthcare system.

Sing for Hope Healing Arts program in action

Program Highlights

In FY25 alone, Sing for Hope served 20,549 people, including patients, caregivers, and older adults.
Practiced in 36 healthcare sites, including New York City Health + Hospitals and Maimonides.
Sing for Hope Artist Partners performed 398 sessions of bedside music, concerts, and creative aging work.

Arts In Health

Powered by Sing for Hope's rigorously trained artist workforce, we transform clinical environments into spaces of healing. Our artists are equipped with specialized training in arts-in-health best practices, safety protocols, infection control, and trauma-informed care to serve diverse communities with excellence.

Program Highlights

Lobby Performances

We transform high-traffic clinical areas into welcoming cultural hubs, creating shared moments of respite that support the wellbeing of patients, staff, and families.

Unit-to-Unit Engagements

Flexible, mobile activations that meet patients and staff where they are, tailoring the energy to the specific pace and needs of each floor.

Bedside Performances

One-on-one, personalized interactions for patients confined to their rooms. Artists adapt repertoire and tone to support individual psychosocial and emotional care.

Staff Wellbeing Sessions

Targeted experiences designed to reduce burnout, foster team cohesion, and build resilience among frontline healthcare workers.

Culturally Responsive Care

Every engagement is tailored to reflect the specific languages, identities, and lived experiences of the population served, ensuring true inclusivity and connection.

Creative Aging

Sing for Hope combats isolation and sparks connection for older adults. Through partnerships with senior centers, memory care units, and long-term care facilities, we deliver culturally responsive arts experiences that support cognitive function and emotional health. Our professional artists serve as vital connectors, trained to engage participants of all abilities with dignity and joy.

Program Highlights

Group Singing

A signature multilingual offering designed to spark memory and foster community through the power of shared song.

Participatory Concerts

Interactive performances that invite engagement at every level, blending high-quality artistry with responsive facilitation.

Song and Percussion Circles

Rhythm and movement sessions that encourage active participation, offering distinct benefits for memory care and cognitive health.

Artist Residencies

Ongoing engagements that build deep relationships and trust, weaving the arts into the daily cultural fabric of the facility.

Social Prescribing

Supported by NYC and NYS cultural agencies, these arts-based interventions directly address social determinants of health, reducing isolation and enhancing mood.

All Sing for Hope Healing Arts and Creative Aging programs are powered by a rigorously trained artist workforce. Through our Creative Workforce Development program, we equip these artists with the specialized cultural competencies, multilingual engagement skills, and arts-in-health best practices—including safety protocols, infection control, HIPAA awareness, and responsive facilitation—needed to serve diverse communities with excellence.

Our Partners

What People Are Saying

"Since 2020, due to retirement, Covid pandemic and ongoing health issues, I've been virtually homebound at Manhattan Plaza. I attended Sing For Hope afternoon concert yesterday sponsored by Rodney Kirk Center for Seniors. Sing for Hope's extraordinary musicians performed classical pieces from Vivaldi, Handel, Bach and the Beatles…the experience was sublime! As host, Victoria welcomed everyone, explained the musical selections and created a warm and intimate setting for the audience. The SFH string trio were delightful. Thank you!"

Pat Hooper

Resident, Manhattan Plaza